This guy has a (maybe legit) leak of the EFL team and "confirming" AWB and Valverde.
https://twitter.com/KingLangpard
This guy has a (maybe legit) leak of the EFL team and "confirming" AWB and Valverde.
https://twitter.com/KingLangpard
That Valverde card looks utter filth. I’ve saved the packs we’ve had from the past week until about 10 tonight, including that 84+ pick.
I’m not expecting anything but a bloody walkout this week would be nice.
Cheers lads. Don't know whether to get rid of Boateng or Bender from the first team but I think he'll be in for the rest of the cycle now.
I never hit 17 last year during TOTS, and I ended up getting a major league TOTS for the majority of my red picks. Quite often I'd get both as major league players if I hit 14, so I'd just chance it if you can't be bothered stretching to 17.
Areola!
@thommo
Correa and Nick Powell (P and P United gang!) in objectives
There's also Chiesa as an SBC (83 and an 86).
There are so many great looking cards.
Got Will Hughes so far.
Second pack I opened:
Also got Kante from my 84+ PP.
I didn’t end up with any others (Ederson, Benzema and Pique also coming out) but I did only have 10 or packs saved and some of those were terrible.
Odds as usually decent on EFL and the crap community ones though.
I'm saving my 10 83+ pack for the Prem, hopefully it gives me something nice.
Latest prime pack is available.
That Bolton CB looks bonkers for an 85.
I think it's time for Mid Rio to say goodbye.
I've been bringing on Lars Bender or Dest on in place of him as he's been struggling lately.
I'll try out that Goldson that I got as he looks pretty damn nifty and the only chem it hurts is Bruno Fernandes who goes down to 8.
These Correa objectives are so boring.
After 2 games I had scored 12 goals (technically it was 8 but 2 were OG's and EA don't count them, the bastards) and I'm currently sitting at 5 wins from 5 but still have to score in 7 more games
It seems the pack gods were on my side this week. A walkout in pretty much every pack.
Started with the 84+ pick. In which were a CL Neuer and TOTS Helik. Choosing the former allows me to sell my tradeable one and once again go full first owner. Then we move onto the packs. First Rare Mega has TOTS Zielinski along with Smith-Rowe MOTM. Next pack had IF 86 Yarmechuk. A couple of board packs and then my first Ultimate had Benzema in. The 2nd had a few 85s but no walkout. Then came the 83+ x 10. I ended up with Oblak, Dybala, The Woj and Verratti from it. Some serious fodder.
The decision is where to put it? Luckily I've no dupes so nothing needs using right this second, but there are many options.
Prices on all SBCs have taken a massive dive so it's only things with 88/89 squads that will cost much. I could quite easily have a Zambrotta or even an Essien in the club by tomorrow if I worked at it now. There's also the likes of Aguero there to be done.
Got the Prime pack.
Nothing in the actual pack but the PP gifted me Soggy Biscuits.
Really hope they drop the juiced upgrades tomorrow as I'd love to rinse through them and try to get some of the EFL TOTS.
Nice 5-0 start to WL. I'm expecting the pain to come in full later. I've only faced 2 TOTS cards so far. One was Gouldson and one was AWB as a CB. The latter was a pain in the ass to get around but the opponent kept pulling him out of position so it was a bit easier.
I've sold TOTS Zielinski on. His 4*/5* looked good, but in truth he was defensively and physically lacking. The club kitty is up to 470k.
I find myself looking at TOTS Bailey. He would strong link Bender to RB in the 4-5-1, however this does start to fuck about with my sides chemistry after that. The problem both is and isn't Deco. He's not too bad in game, but he's currently the glue that holds the chemistry at 100. A different Icon would solve this somewhat, but with there being no upgrade packs out of any kind that would mean rinsing the club funds.
Chemistry is a right pain now though with so many nationalities in my squad. I can't really build what I want to.
Continued on to 8-0 the streak did. Everything was going well. Then I eventually hit the better player I knew I would. Gave him a good game, but he absolutely ruined me with ASMs 85 card.
Went into the next game after a little break and came up against that 4-4-2 with 2 CDMs. He was an ultimate counter player. It's been a while since I lost to a guy like this but he got me. Quite annoyingly I managed to draw him out 3 times for that hollywood through ball, only for CR7 to take a heavy touch and have the keeper sweep it up. I managed to go all out attack and level it 2-2 in the 84th, but then my players did not switch back to my normal formation in time and he played through me.
I'm 8-2, but if you'd offered me that at the start I'd happily take it.
Packed TOTS Ndombele out of one of the Aguero packs. He looks ok but 3* WF and a few holes in key places that you can't fix with a chem card really.
3/4 done now for Aguero, just the 86 to go. Will finish him up tonight once Ndombele sells.
Fuck me it's been tough slogging tonight. After an 8-0 start I fell to 9-4. I slipped back into my old groove of conceding late goals to lose the game, 3 games running. It feels like I've played Div 1 all day rather than Champs. As if there's been no ELO.
I have recovered to 14-5, but that's with flat out stealing 2 games. Both saw me having little of the ball, not by choice. One as low as 32% possession.
I feel like I need a shower after playing through it. I do have 11 games left but I'm not sure if I should, or if I should save those for better Rivals rewards.
I decided to play on as in the week will be Objective hunting. I lost my first 4 games on the run, all in annoying circumstances. Then in game 5 this happened, which perfectly sums up my entire weekend:
I'm on Rivals to get into WL next weekend and my first game saw my opponent quit after this:
That was Goldson's second volley from a corner (first was in the box) in the game.
Championship team rapidly becoming seriously good with this Sarr SBC. 80+PP too
Also: Ake upgrade
Did some upgrades and ended up with Toney. He looks like a good card.
I did somewhere between 10-15 of those 80+ picks.
Ended up with a great haul. TOTS Edouard, Mullin and Tagliafico, Son, Lloris, Muller and 2 x IF Kjaer.
Having Tag in there is interesting as I was seriously looking at picking him up. Gunter drove me mad this weekend(at one point he lost me a game losing a back post header to Neymar of all people) and Tag links to a potential CB Klaiber and Neres at LW.
If those picks are still there Thursday I may double dip, open all of my packs and rinse them through upgrades, then save those for the new TOTS on Friday. It's also getting time to need to do an SBC to start clearing fodder.
I opened about the same and it was pretty shit for me.
A couple of 87's, a couple of 85's and an IF Chicharito.
I got a dupe Allison, a Ssczezeczceny, a shit TOTS player from Lincoln and a couple of low-rated TOTW players so far. Still have a fair bit more I'm going to rinse through it.
Very much having trouble putting a team together I really like and that improves upon my current first XI. Even the squad I built with Vidal/Sanches isn't clicking. Seem to always be one player short or a bit lopsided.
Tagliafico really makes me wish I'd done Neres
I'd love to do the 86+ and save it for the Prem TOTS but it's just far too expensive.
The Attacker icon upgrade can also get in the bin for including mids.
No one in their right mind should be touching that icon upgrade.
Both of those are insanely overpriced.
Managed to put my random crap in and get Sarr done. From the crappy packs back I made an 80+ or two and got TOTS Kean.
I also did Correa inside 50 mins. Of the 12 games I needed to score in, 11 of them saw me score first and get the early RQ. Only one guy stayed and he lost 5-2, though he quit in the 83rd minute.
Honeyman for me. Terrible but cheap enough for having a go.
Grant for me. Essentially an 82 squad for an 85+ player. Great value, but there's pretty much anyone that is better. I suspect the Community team will require a TOTS Item and an 84/85 so it's one part of it done.
I also can't help but get a bit annoyed at these SBCs they're putting out. A lot of the players you want have something "wrong" with them. What would be the harm in giving Digne 93/94 pace? Same for that Aguero card.
I don't think he's any better than Tagliafico but he's priced over 100k more to boot.
Duplicate Grant for me. Will have to hold onto him until something comes out that I want. There'll surely be an SBC that needs a TOTS.
I can't help but think if there's a guaranteed community TOTS one, either tomorrow or Thursday, we'll be needing an 84/85 squad with 1 TOTS.
Did the community and got Moise Kean.
I wanted AWB or Valverde but Kean, despite his low price tag, looks quite nice and I do like a chunky striker.
I was right about the community one so I stuck my TOTS Mullins in there and got TOTS Bailey back. A great addition to the bench at the very least.
Due to this anything Bundesliga would be helpful as the team is really leaning that way defensively.
Opened my reds and pick 1 contained Areola, Illicic, Nkunku and Clarke-Harris. I like them all here but as previous, Nkunku was the most valuable one so I took him, he's also Bundesliga so that helps big time.
I'd have loved to see Alaba, but pick 2 was much more as I expected. Kean along with 3 low rated EFL guys. I took Kean as that now frees up his TOTS card I have for a future SBC.
Sat on 500k and some decent but not amazing fodder. I feel like the team needs a changeup for the coming weekend as it's been 3 weeks or so since it did. I'd love something to go at SBC wise to go in, but there's only really Essien or Zambrotta that I could get in now. I'm not really sure Zambrotta is the way right now as I've a load of defenders anyway, but he does look really good.
Not released today but he was in concepts
I can't help but feel this is a bit... meh. The players seem nowhere near as juiced as I expected them to be. Compare those who got TOTS last year to this.
You are 100% right. They have certainly pulled the ratings back
Those defenders(minus Cancelo), Gundogan and Soucek all look like they've been done quite dirty.
I'm not sure I like EFL players having higher rated TOTS cards than Premier League players either.
Son compared to last year is quite a bit worse: https://www.futbin.com/20/player/48201/heung-min-son
And what's with Bruno being 1 rating lower than his TOTY but significantly faster?
Ratings don't really mean anything, hence why you have all these 85 rated silver beasts.